Quotes about Journey

Our time for this life is nothing other than a race to death.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

The Dark Night of the Soul.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.

Madam, when you are come to the other side of the water, and set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back to the water and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, you shall then be forced to say, "If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.

I know no sweeter way to heaven, than through free grace and hard trials together, and one of these cannot well want another.

I thought it had been an easy thing to be a Christian, and that to seek God had been at the next door, but oh, the windings, the turnings, the ups and the downs that He hath led me through! and I see yet much way to the ford.